Insect-destroyer



PATENTEDJ-AN. 19, 1904.' J. HAM. INSEGT DESTROYER. APPLIOATION PILBDAPB. 3, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented January 19, 1904.

JESSE HAM, OF EMERY MILLS, MAINE INSECT-DESTROYVER.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. '750,030, dated J anuary 19, 1904.

i To all whom it may' cancer-71,.-

Be it known that I, J ESSE HAM, a citizen of the United States, resding at Emery Mills, in the County of York and State of Mame, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Destroyers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for killing fiies and other insects, and has for its object to provide a device of 'the character described in which a wire screen forming the strikingsurface is mounted on the end of' a spring-actuated plunger, so that the operator stands opposite the fly and takes aim instead of, as in the devices in common use, swinging a screensurface through the air, thereby not insurng a-good aim and at the same time risking frightening the insect.

By. providing a spring for receiving the screen-surface said surface will strike the wall or other surface flatly even though the plunger be held obliquely to the perpendicular of said surface.

The Construction v and operation of my invention will fplly appear .hereinafter and by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side view, partly in section, of my invention; and Fig. 2, an end view of the plunger.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in both Views, A represents the handle of my device having a longitudinal bore B, in which is mounted plunger C, having at one end a handle D and at the other an evolute spring E. The end of spring E is secured, as shown at F, to form a ring F', On which is secured a strip of wire-gauze fabric Gr to form the striking-surface. H represents a retractile coil-spring secured at one end to the han- !Application filed April 3, 1903. Serial No. 150,90 3. (No model.)

dle D and at the other to the end of bore B to actuate said plunger C.

The operation of my invention will be readily understood to be as follows: The handle A is grasped with one hand by the operator, while With the other the plunger C is drawn back. When the handle D is released, the spring H impels the plunger C forward, and the wire surface G strikes the Wall. As stated above, the spring E permits the plunger being held obliquely'to the surface of the Wall, %he surface Gr nevertheless striking the wall Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In an insect-destroyer, a plunger, an evolute spring on the end of said plunger ending in a ring, a strip of wire-gauze fabric secured to said ring, and means to actuate the plunger, substantially as shown and described.

2. In an insect-destroyer, a plunger, an evolute spring on the end of said plunger ending in a ring, a strip of wire gauze fabric secured to said ring, and a retractile coil-spring to actuate said plunger, substantially as shown and described. v

3. In an insect-destroyer, a handle having a longitudinal bore, aplunger mounted in said bore, a retractile coil-spring wound around said plunger having one end secured to the end of said plunger and the other end secured in said bore, an evolute spring on the free end of said plunger ending in a ring, and a strip of wire-gauze fabric secured to saidring, substantally 'as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JESSE HAM.

Witnesses:

ANGUS S.` MOULTON, E. A. MoUL'roN. 

